The days are like the water in the Sungai River, bubbling forward, and in the blink of an eye, it is already winter.

The Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, the school hall is out for the New Year, and the students go home happily, only Xia Yuanxi is still in the school hall.

The usual lively fasthouse is extremely deserted today, even the birds on the trees are no longer chirping, and it is so quiet that only Xia Yuanxi's unhurried footsteps can be heard.

She read a book for a day in the Zhaisha, and when she looked up, she found that it was getting late, and she wanted to come to the Imperial Food Zhai to see if she could find something to eat, but she found that all the masters had gone home today.

Yuan Xi was not depressed, she looked around and found that there were still some ingredients left in the back kitchen of the Imperial Food Zhai that had not had time to be processed, and the cabinet on the side was also complete with oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.

Roll up your sleeves and start cooking.

In the past, when she was at home, she cooked almost all of the four meals a day for four people in the family, so it was easy for her to cook some home-cooked dishes.

She lit a fire, washed rice and boiled it, only to look at the ingredients carefully, and found that there were many potatoes, a few cabbages, a few radish, and some mushroom and bean curd vermicelli, etc., she thought for a while, fried a five-spice sauce fried cabbage, braised potatoes with soy bean curd, and stewed a radish group mushroom soup.

After the dish is fried, the rice on one side also comes out with a burst of rice aroma.

She lit a lamp and placed it at the table, sat down, and quietly ate her own meal.

The pitch-black sky outside was sliced by five-colored fireworks.

Yuan Xi put down the dishes and chopsticks and looked out the window blankly:

Today is Chinese New Year's Eve.

She remembered that last year, today, she went home.

Daddy went out to sell the firewood he had chopped the day before in the morning, and his brother Xia Li slept until he woke up naturally, and after lunch, he went out to find his fox friends and dogs, and his mother and himself were at home.

While sewing and mending, the mother said to Yuan Xi, who was washing clothes: "Yuan Yuan, you see that you are a girl, what is the use of going to school?" Why don't you let your brother go, he is a boy, go to Feihong Hall to study for a few years, and he can get an official position. ”

Yuan Xi sneered in his heart, Xia Li is like that, not to mention that he can't enter the Feihong Pavilion directly, even if he enters the Feihong Pavilion, he can't support Adou, get an official body? Dream on!

She picked up the washed clothes and was patient: "Mother, don't think about what you have or don't have, what is the Feihong Pavilion?" Did I say that if you change him in, you can change him in? He is almost twenty years old, if you are really good for him, don't spoil him like this, steal chickens and dogs all day long, rob houses and houses, and don't do anything serious. ”

"You Nizi, why do you say that about your brother?"

"He doesn't let people say this? He has the ability to be admitted to the Feihong Pavilion by himself, don't think about coming to fight my idea! ”

Aunt Xia put down the needle and thread in her hand and shouted at Yuan Xi, who was drying her clothes: "Dead girl, have you eaten cannons today?" I'll say one thing, you have ten sentences to block me!

"You are a girl, you don't help out at home with some housework, you go to the school to enjoy the happiness, all the good things in the world are taken up by you, your brother is a good young man, but you are delayed!"

Yuan Xi simply laughed angrily: "I delayed him? I'm delaying him?! It's a ridiculous joke! ”

"I don't care what kind of chicken or duck you have, I have already told the princess in the west of the village that I will promise you to her youngest son after the New Year, and the bride price will be given, which is five taels of silver!"

"Mother!?" The clothes in Yuan Xi's hand fell to the ground in an instant, and she looked directly at Aunt Xia, "What did you just say?" ”

"What did I say? I said that you are not allowed to go to the school hall next year, so let me stay at home! ”

"Mother, I'm not yet the year of the golden hairpin, and you want to sell me again? Just for five taels of silver? ”

"What do you say 'sell', it's so ugly, where is Young Master Wang not worthy of you, in terms of wealth and family, where do you not have to be strong? Yuan Yuan, your father is a useless person, the few pennies that chop wood and sell it, and tighten your belt can only maintain food and clothing, if you go to the Wang family, it is not a good food and spicy drink, if you have a little conscience and a little filial piety, occasionally take care of your mother's ......"

"Mother!" Yuan Xi interrupted her words sharply, "My anointing money and bonus money in the academy have been given to you every month, for so long, there are not ten taels but eight taels, you want to marry me off early for the five taels of silver, are you still my mother?" ”

"Where am I for five taels of silver, I'm thinking about your life's affairs!" Aunt Xia screamed with a sharp voice, "Ouch, why is my life so bitter, my daughter who was raised with hard work doesn't listen to me!" The bride price money has been given! I might as well be hit headfirst to death! ”

Xia Yuanxi was accustomed to it, she turned a deaf ear to Aunt Xia's wailing, went back to the house to find the heart bottle won at the Dragon Boat Festival Qushui Liuyu meeting, packed the bag, went to the pawnshop to work for a hundred taels of silver, and agreed with the pawnshop to redeem it after three months.

This heart-turning bottle has filled the grapes that the young man apologized for.

The young man wore the white robe of the school hall, jumped from the banyan tree in a dashing manner, he smiled like a sun, and said solemnly: "This is an apology!" ”

Xia Yuanxi just kept this bottle for some reason.

At this moment, I had to take it away, and I thought to myself: I will definitely redeem it again.

Yuan Xi kept an eye on it, exchanged the silver for a silver ticket and deposited it in the bank, and only returned home with ten taels of broken silver, and at dinner, she poured the broken silver on the old wooden table in front of the family.

"This is all the silver I saved, a total of nine taels and two hundred and fifty wen, you take it and pay it back to the princess!" Because it was Chinese New Year's Eve, Yuan Xi didn't want to make trouble with Mrs. Xia, so she said in a good voice, "I'm still young, I'm not in a hurry to get married." ”

When Xia Li and Aunt Xia saw so much silver, their eyes lit up, and they couldn't wait to put the silver in their arms.

"Yuan Yuan, if you have any money, just say it early! If you do this, I'll ask your dad to buy some meat and come back, and our family will have a happy New Year today. Aunt Xia smiled and put a grain of broken silver into her mouth, bit it, and carefully put it into her pocket.

"Mother, she must have more, only to fool you with such a little." Xia Li took the silver and said to Aunt Xia with a flattering face, "Think about it, Feihong Pavilion has one or two anointing money every month, I heard that there are rewards for spending bonus money for the top few places in the monthly assessment, and the homework of the Yuan Ximen is so good, and the rewards must be not less, but she only gives you one or two silver a month, I don't know how much I secretly saved!" Also, you don't know, those friends of hers are either rich or expensive......"

"That's it!" Xia Zhiyuan finally spoke out to defend Yuan Xi once, "Yuan Yuan finally came back, do you two want her to force her to death to be willing?" ”

"Xia Zhiyuan! What are you talking about? It's so ugly, Yuan Yuan is my daughter, Li'er's sister, just you feel sorry for her, just you are a bad person? If you have the ability, you can make more money and come back, but if you don't have the ability, what kind of hero are you here? ”

Xia Zhiyuan was scolded by Aunt Xia, and he threw his sleeves back to his house.

I didn't finish a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

Xia Yuanxi came back to his senses, looked at the two dishes and one soup that were cold in front of him, and smiled faintly.

Actually, that's pretty good.

She thought of her grandfather, her grandfather was a Xiucai in the Changyou period, and her grandfather loved her the most when he was still there, and the names of their brothers and sisters were given by their grandfather.

"Yuan has Zhi Xi Li and Lan", what a beautiful expectation, but ......